Wisconsin, Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are all facing legal challenges to their legislative maps at the Federal level and State level. So, here's a simple fun challenge for everyone: can you draw a legislative map that has minimal gerrymandering influence? While,also abiding to the VRA and having at least one minority-majority district?

There's this wonderful browser tool (note: only works on IE), that I've spent ungodly amounts of hours on playing around with; and I'm curious how will you guys draw up the boundaries(if you were given the task).

Wisconsin, Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are all facing legal challenges to their legislative maps at the Federal level and State level. So, here's a simple fun challenge for everyone: can you draw a legislative map that has minimal gerrymandering influence? While,also abiding to the VRA and having at least one minority-majority district?

There's this wonderful browser tool (note: only works on IE), that I've spent ungodly amounts of hours on playing around with; and I'm curious how will you guys draw up the boundaries(if you were given the task).

Wisconsin, Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are all facing legal challenges to their legislative maps at the Federal level and State level. So, here's a simple fun challenge for everyone: can you draw a legislative map that has minimal gerrymandering influence? While,also abiding to the VRA and having at least one minority-majority district?

There's this wonderful browser tool (note: only works on IE), that I've spent ungodly amounts of hours on playing around with; and I'm curious how will you guys draw up the boundaries(if you were given the task).

Wisconsin, Maryland, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania are all facing legal challenges to their legislative maps at the Federal level and State level. So, here's a simple fun challenge for everyone: can you draw a legislative map that has minimal gerrymandering influence? While,also abiding to the VRA and having at least one minority-majority district?

There's this wonderful browser tool (note: only works on IE), that I've spent ungodly amounts of hours on playing around with; and I'm curious how will you guys draw up the boundaries(if you were given the task).

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EDIT: I've made a much cleaner, and fairer Maryland map. There are 2 republican, and 6 democrats. I will try and make an even fairer map, as a completely fair map would give Republicans 3 seats, and I will post it when it is made.

EDIT: I've made a much cleaner, and fairer Maryland map. There are 2 republican, and 6 democrats. I will try and make an even fairer map, as a completely fair map would give Republicans 3 seats, and I will post it when it is made.

Purple CD3: 46.9 D, 51.5 R/ R+3.1/ 73.2, 15.2, 6.1, 2.7. [I could easily the Democratic party target this district in 2018 as part of their plan to retake the House. Note, I will admit it is a bit funny looking. And will concede that].

Limegreen. CD 6: 65 D, 33.7 R/ D+16.79/ 48.6, 29.6, 8, 10.6. [ This is technically a m-m district in that whites do not have a clear majority, but a plurality. I will note that this was not intentional lol.

CD 8: 47.8 D, 50.7 R/ R+4.67/ 75.5, 10.1, 7.4, 5.5. [Another district that will easily be targeted by the Democratic party in 2018.]

While the map is relatively fair in terms of representation- 5D, 3R(close to the state wide results)- the geography of the electorate made it difficult to insure the state will always have 'proportional representation'. If the current polling on a generic ballot holds up on election day(ranges from D+5 to D+10), there could be a possibility that all of the seats could become blue.

District 1: Stays about the same, I cleaned it up so that it covers the Eastern Shore up to Harford County and then stops. It is an R+12 district and 78% White.

District 2: Greatly changed as it now encompasses the majority of Baltimore County with parts of Carroll and Howard in there too. This is probably the ugliest, I'll admit that, but as for the goal of keeping together likeminded communities this does just that by steering clear of Baltimore City. This is a perfect Democrat target, Even PVI and only 71% white, that sweet spot of White Middle Class Suburban voters.

District 3: Probably the most gerrymandered district in the nation, this was fun to fix. It reaches from East Baltimore to Rockville in Montgomery county. It is D+15 and only 52% White.

District 4: This District would become tied for 3rd most Democratic in the nation with CA-13 and PA-02, behind NY-13 and NY-15. It is quite obviously a D+40 district considering it encompasses the entire northern half of Prince George's County. It is m-m at 62% black, only 15% white.

District 5: This is the type of district the GOP would target in a landslide. It is D+7 and only 61% white but houses lots of Upper Class Conservatives. It holds Southern Maryland up to the Capitol of Annapolis.

District 6: This is the other Republican District covering all of Western Maryland but housing some Democrats in the form of Western Montgomery County. Overall it clocks in at R+6 but 77% white making it a hard sell for Democrats because most of the Republicans here are Mountain Rural Republicans, not likely to go Democrat.

District 7: This district houses West Baltimore as well as the urban parts of Howard and Baltimore counties. The result is a D+33 district and a 55% black constituency with only 34% of residents being white.

District 8: The heart of Montgomery county. Home to all the government worker white liberals of Maryland. Despite being 51% white this district clocks in at an impressive D+26. It is extremely diverse as far as minorities go being 15% black, 18% Hispanic, and 14% Asian.

If anyone has questions I'm happy to answer! I think I'll actually try to gerrymander Maryland into favoring Republicans now, that might be a fun practice.

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I have played with it a lot before. Unfortunately, in about six or seven years of playing with this site, I have only ever managed to complete Texas once. It is so massive that eventually it just crashes the browser.

I have played with it a lot before. Unfortunately, in about six or seven years of playing with this site, I have only ever managed to complete Texas once. It is so massive that eventually it just crashes the browser.